We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

You make problem, you have problem

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.

In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.